Given that Labor have a lower house majority but not one in the Senate, where the Greens hold the balance of power, this will not change the need to negotiate with the Greens (or the coalition) to get legislation passed.
It still sucks, though. Bandt has been a capable leader and has presided over the transformation of the Greens from a mostly-single-issue environmental protest party to a broad party of the left of the sort that Labor can no longer claim to be, pushing issues like rights for non-homeowners and expansion of Medicare. Fingers crossed that he scrapes through.
What ? The dental into Medicare thing has long been Greens policy along with a whole other bunch of stuff.
They tried under Gillard to force the issue but had to accept children only in Medicare as a compromise…
The environment policy centrism flows through into everything though, so it should stay front and centre eg public and alternate transport lowers; emissions, pollution, urban sprawl, human misery, heath expenditure, cost of living etc etc Medium density well insulated housing similarly helps lower hosing costs amd that all flows from sound environmental policy.
You seem to be getting confused by media either ignoring them or pillorying them for devades, rather then actual Green ploicy ?
The only real new thing was housing policy re renters based on Max etal actually experiencing housing stress and donating significant portions of thier parliamentary income to homeless charities rather then buying houses and fleecing tax payers ah la ALP/LNP/Teal politicians.
I’ve been voting Green for15 years, Independents before that for 30 years but alas in that time its seen preferences fall through to shit stain lite, aka ALP.
The whole thing is only going to get worse as Anthony Green quipped on election night, as new funding legislation mostly just supports the ALP and LNP.
They’ll block everything and demand stupid things like all coal mines closed in 12 months or all ICE cars banned by 2026. Hardly any legislation will get passed, just like under Julia Gillard.
Given that Labor have a lower house majority but not one in the Senate, where the Greens hold the balance of power, this will not change the need to negotiate with the Greens (or the coalition) to get legislation passed.
It still sucks, though. Bandt has been a capable leader and has presided over the transformation of the Greens from a mostly-single-issue environmental protest party to a broad party of the left of the sort that Labor can no longer claim to be, pushing issues like rights for non-homeowners and expansion of Medicare. Fingers crossed that he scrapes through.
What ? The dental into Medicare thing has long been Greens policy along with a whole other bunch of stuff.
They tried under Gillard to force the issue but had to accept children only in Medicare as a compromise…
The environment policy centrism flows through into everything though, so it should stay front and centre eg public and alternate transport lowers; emissions, pollution, urban sprawl, human misery, heath expenditure, cost of living etc etc Medium density well insulated housing similarly helps lower hosing costs amd that all flows from sound environmental policy.
You seem to be getting confused by media either ignoring them or pillorying them for devades, rather then actual Green ploicy ?
The only real new thing was housing policy re renters based on Max etal actually experiencing housing stress and donating significant portions of thier parliamentary income to homeless charities rather then buying houses and fleecing tax payers ah la ALP/LNP/Teal politicians.
I’ve been voting Green for15 years, Independents before that for 30 years but alas in that time its seen preferences fall through to shit stain lite, aka ALP.
The whole thing is only going to get worse as Anthony Green quipped on election night, as new funding legislation mostly just supports the ALP and LNP.
They’ll block everything and demand stupid things like all coal mines closed in 12 months or all ICE cars banned by 2026. Hardly any legislation will get passed, just like under Julia Gillard.
An yet, this wont happen. Maybe wipe the FUD off next time.